The Martial Unity

"Fuuu..." Rui exhaled as he calmed his pounding heart.

He didn't want to get too excited.

He had been waiting for this day for quite some time. If he screwed things up because he was too excited he wouldn't forgive himself

He glanced at his personal schedule for the preliminary contest.

[Fae Dullahan vs Rui Quarrier]

It had been five days since the Academy pre-scheduled the remaining matches. In the following days after his fight with Feela Garron, he went onto fight Jane Francis; A powerful grappling specialist, as well as Avi Seth and Sahar Kal.

In his fight against Jane Francis, he had adapted his fighting style into that of a distant ranged striker with elements of evasive maneuvering. This was one of the best solutions against an aggressive grappler, range to exploit their weakness, and evasiveness to counter their only means of compensating for their weakness. He had eventually won the battle with a well-timed Flowing Canon which knocked his opponent out.

Against Avi Seth, he was truly tempted to use the Stinger. The Stinger was one of his trump cards that would have been extremely effective against Avi Seth because it inflicted critical damage while minimizing contact with poison skin. Allowing him to take Avi Seth out far faster than the poison would incapacitate him. It would have been trivially easy for Rui one-shot Avi had he gone all out. But he decided to preserve the trump card for when it was truly needed.

Instead, he took Avi down by abusing his maneuvering techniques and Phantom Step, carefully avoiding his palm jabs while also avoiding his arm guard. This turned out to not be as challenging as he expected, he came to realize that Avi had potent poison that he employed in tricky ways, but once Rui figured out the trick, the VOID algorithm chewed his Martial Art and spat out a counter-adapted fighting style which Rui used to dominate him start to finish.

He ended the battle with a clean ring out.

It definitely helped that he had spectated Fae's fight with him.

Sahar Kal was the most dominant of all three fights. Despite being an all-rounder, she had poor adaptability and fought very straightforwardly. This is why Rui was able to cleanly handle her despite the fact that all-rounders were harder for the VOID algorithm to adapt to. He exploited the

twelve Martial Apprentices of the Academy who were tied for rank one had been whittled down having faced each other. At

Rui Quarrier.

Fae Dullahan.

Nel.

Kane Arrancar.

Hever Mendelieve.

come for him to fight

the sparring facility immediately, there wasn't much time left

four of his friends

he's here." Kane

before turning to Fae. "Hey Fae,

Win or lose, no hard feelings, I won't hold

She was pumped

ask for anything more." Rui grinned. "May

the match was

was an immense amount attention on

match. This was important. This was a match that would likely eliminate one of the top five candidates from

and Rui. The two of them were both incredibly remarkable and had reached the very best of all the Martial Apprentices

of the outcome, they were in for

go all-out during them, but rather used them to train certain